In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.